CHAPTER 1 – WHAT IS ECONOMICS ALL ABOUT
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CHAPTER 1: What Economics Is About
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Definitions of | |Internet Activity () |
|Economics | | |
|Economic Categories |Text Self-Test |Internet Activity () |
| |Study Guide* Problem 4 | |
|Key Concepts in |Text Analyzing the Scene (4), “Economics In Everyday Life: Blogging,”|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Economics |“Economics In Popular Culture: Why LeBron James Isn’t in College,” and|() |
| |Self-Test |Economic Applications: EconNews, “SUVs May Become Less |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1, 2, 3, and 5 |Likely to Crack When They Roll Over” (Source: The Wall |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 1, “Can You Get Too Much of a Good|Street Journal Online, August 2005) and “How Much is a |
| |Thing,” and Ch. 2, “There is a Right Amount of Everything” |Manatee Worth?” (Source: The Chronicle of Higher |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 1.A, “Economics|Education, March 2004) |
| |Is All Around Us: Hot Dog Vendors on the Beach,” Problem Set 1.1, |The Graphing Workshop “Working with Graphs” |
| |“Allocating Resources,” Problem Set 1.2, “Calculating Opportunity | |
| |Cost,” Problem Set 1.3, “Marginal Analysis,” and Classroom Experiment | |
| |9.B, “Outguessing the Fed (among others): Internet Stock Market Games”| |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 1: “Opportunity Cost: The Family Man”| |
| |and Scene 15: “Efficiency: Along Came Polly” | |
|Economists Build and |Text Self-Test | |
|Test Theories |Study Guide* Theory on a TV Show | |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 3, “Have a Question, Build a | |
| |Theory,” and Ch. 5, “Why Is It Harder to Predict than to Explain?” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: What’s In Store for an Economics Major?” | |
|Resources |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 1, “Introduction” | |
|Appendix A: Working |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 4.B, “Learning |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|with Diagrams |Graphs the Fun Way: Blind Curve” |() |
| | |SketchIt Exercises 1-1 and 1-2 |
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CHAPTER 2: Economic Activities: Producing and Trading
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Production |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), “Economics In Everyday Life: |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Possibilities Frontier |Liberals, Conservatives, and the PPF” and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 3-10 |The Graphing Workshop “Production Possibilities Frontier”|
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 1: “The Production Possibilities |SketchIt Exercises 2.1 and 2.2 |
| |Frontier” |Ask the Instructor Video What Does Barbed Wire Have to Do|
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 1.B, |With Externalities? |
| |“Production Possibilities Frontier Experiment: Links and Smiles,” |Internet Activity () |
| |Problem Set 1.4, “Production Possibility Curves,” and Problem Set | |
| |1.5, “Shifting Production Possibility Curves” | |
|Trade or Exchange |Text Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 2 |() |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Does It Sometimes Cost Too Much |
| | |to Save a Life? |
|Production, Trade and |Text Analyzing the Scene, “Economics In Popular Culture: Jerry | |
|Specialization |Seinfeld, the Doorman, and Adam Smith,” “Economics In Popular | |
| |Culture: Elvis, Comparative Advantage, and Specialization,” Thinking| |
| |Like an Economist and Self-Test | |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 10: “Comparative Advantage: Babe” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: How Will Economics Help Me If I’m a History | |
|Resources |Major?” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* “Economic Report of the | |
| |President,” “Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers*” and | |
| |“Overview” | |
| |Issues In American Economic History* Ch. 3, “Economic Systems Before| |
| |the Opening of the New World” and Ch. 4, “The Age of Exploration and | |
| |Spanish Colonization” | |
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CHAPTER 3: Supply and Demand
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Demand |Text Thinking Like an Economist, Analyzing the Scene, “Economics|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |In the World: U4E (((H)))^5 Yours Forever, Big Hug, High Five,” |() The Graphing Workshop |
| |Thinking Like an Economist and Self-Test |“Demand” |
| |Study Guide* Problems 8 and 10 |Internet Activities () |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 2: “Demand” | and
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 2.2, “Shifting | |
| |Demand Curves” | |
|Supply |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 3: “Supply” |The Graphing Workshop “Supply” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 2.3, “Shifting |Economic Application: EconNews, “It’s Sunny Out. Turn on the |
| |Supply Curves” |Solar Panels, Please…” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, June |
| | |2005) |
|The Market: Putting |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Getting to Class on Time,” |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Supply and Demand |Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |The Graphing Workshop “Market Equilibrium” |
|Together |Study Guide* Problems 1-5 |Ask the Instructor Video Do the Terms “Shortage” and |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 11: “Consumers’ Surplus” |“Scarcity” Mean the Same Thing? |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 2.A, |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Job Growth is Great, but it |
| |“Buying and Selling Snipes in the Pit Market,” Classroom |May Bring an Unwelcome Houseguest: Inflation,” (Source: The |
| |Experiment 2.B, “Penning Supply and Demand Curves,” Problem Set |New York Times Online, August 2005), “Goodbye Y2K, Hello DST” |
| |2.1, “Graphing Supply and Demand,” Problem Set 2.8, “You Don’t |(Source: The USA Today, August 2005) and “Kodak Struggles to |
| |Have To Be Old To Be a Classic,” Problem Set 2.11, “Consumer and |Learn from Its Past Mistakes” (Source: The Economist, May |
| |Producer Surplus,” Problem Set 2.15, “Consumer Surplus” Problem |2005) |
| |Set 2.16, “Producer Surplus” and Classroom 11.A, “Getting into the|Internet Activities () |
| |(Circular) Flow of Things” | and
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 2: “Gains from Exchange: Out of | |
| |Sight” | |
|Price Controls |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Supply and Demand on a |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Freeway,” Thinking Like an Economist, Analyzing the Scene and |The Graphing Workshop “Price Controls” |
| |Self-Test |Economic Application: EconNews, “Defying Historical Lessons, |
| |Study Guide* Problems 6, 7, and 9 |Hawaii sets Gasoline Price Caps…Again!” (Source: The Wall |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 2.7, “Here Is a |Street Journal Online, August 2005) |
| |Message for Us,” Problem Set 2.9, “Price Floor,” Problem Set 2.10,| |
| |“Price Ceiling,” and Problem Set 2.12, “The Cost of Taxation” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: How Does Knowing About Supply and Demand | |
|Resources |Help Me?” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 8, “Regulating Energy | |
| |Markets” | |
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CHAPTER 4: Macroeconomic Measurements
|Chapter Section |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Macroeconomic Measurements | |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |() Ask the Instructor |
| | |Video Does New Technology Destroy Jobs? |
|Measuring Prices |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), Thinking Like an Economist, |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |“Economics In Popular Culture: Who Earned More as President: |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Measuring Housing Prices” |
| |John F. Kennedy or George W. Bush?” and Self-Test |(Source: The New York Times Online, June 2005) and “Job |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1-5 |Numbers Down in May” (Source: The New York Times Online, |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 8.A, |June 2005) |
| |“COLAs and Living Burger-to-Burger on Route 66,” Problem Set 8.1, |Economic Application: EconData, “What Is the Consumer Price |
| |“The Consumer Price Index,” Problem Set 8.2, “Inflation” and |Index?” |
| |Problem Set 8.3, “Benchmarking Inflation” |Internet Activities and |
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|Measuring Unemployment |Text “Economics In the World: What Explains the Increasing |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Percentage of Women in the Labor Force?” and Self-Test |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Is a ‘Jobless |
| |Study Guide* Problems 6-9 |Recovery’ a Necessary Part of the ‘New Economy?’” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 8.6, “Calculating |Economic Application: EconData, “What is the Civilian |
| |the Unemployment Rate,” Problem Set 8.7, “Types of Unemployment,” |Unemployment Rate?” |
| |Problem Set 8.8, “The Natural Rate of Unemployment” and Problem |Internet Activities () |
| |Set 8.10, “The Misery Index” | and |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 3: “The Great Depression: | |
| |Seabiscuit” | |
|Gross Domestic Product |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Economic Applications: |
| |Study Guide* Problems 10 and 13 |EconNews, “Consumer Confidence Drops” (Source: The New York |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 8.4, “Gross |Times Online, July 2005) |
| |Domestic Product” | |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 9, “Measuring Economic | |
| |Performance: Traffic” | |
|The Expenditure Approach to|Text Self-Test | |
|Computing GDP for a |Study Guide* Problem 11, 12, and 14 | |
|Real-World Economy |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 11.3, “The | |
| |Aggregate Expenditure Model” | |
|Real GDP |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Does the State of the Economy |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Economic Application: |
| |Influence How People Vote?” and Self-Test |EconNews, “Is the Recession Really Over?” (Source: Talon |
| |Study Guide* Problems 15-17 |News, July 2003) |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 8.9, “Real vs. | |
| |Nominal Values” | |
|End-of-Chapter Resources |Text “A Reader Asks: Where Do I Go to Learn the Specifics of | |
| |Jobs and Wages?” | |
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CHAPTER 5: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Two Sides to an | | |
|Economy | | |
|Aggregate Demand |Text Thinking Like an Economist, “Economics In Everyday Life: |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Looking at Consumption,” Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1, 3, 10, and 11 |SketchIt Exercise 5-1 |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 5: “Aggregate Demand” |Economic Application: EconNews, “Two Keys to Long-Term |
| | |Economic Recovery” (Source: The New York Times Online, July |
| | |2004) |
| | |Economic Application: EconData, “What Is the Interest Rate |
| | |Spread?” |
|Short-Run Aggregate |Text Self-Test | |
|Supply |Study Guide* Problem 2 | |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 6: “Aggregate Supply” | |
|Putting AD and SRAS |Text “Economics In Popular Culture: Aggregate Demand, the Great|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Together: Short-Run |Depression, and Scrabble,” Analyzing the Scene, Thinking Like an |() The Graphing Workshop |
|Equilibrium |Economist, and Self-Test |“Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply” |
| |Study Guide* Problems 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 |Internet Activities () |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 7: “Aggregate Demand and Aggregate | and |
| |Supply: In the Short Run” | |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 11.4, “Aggregate | |
| |Supply and Aggregate Demand” | |
|Long-Run Aggregate |Text Self-Test | |
|Supply |Study Guide* Problem 6 | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Do My Job Prospects Depend on AD and SRAS?”| |
|Resources |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 12, “The Roaring | |
| |Twenties and the Depressed Thirties” | |
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CHAPTER 6: The Self-Regulating Economy
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |() The Graphing Workshop|
| | |“Self Adjustment to Potential Output” |
|The Classical View |Text Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self–Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |() |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video How Does the Government Affect the |
| | |Economy? |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “Loanable Funds Market” |
| | |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
|Three States of the |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Economy |Study Guide* Problems 1-5 |() SketchIt Exercises |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 8: “Aggregate Demand and Aggregate |6-1 and 6-2 |
| |Supply: In the Long Run” |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|The Self-Regulating |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), Thinking Like an Economist, |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Economy |“Economics In Technology: The Natural Unemployment Rate, |() |
| |Technology, and Policy Errors” and Self-Test |The Graphing Workshop “Contractionary Gap” and “Expansionary |
| |Study Guide* Problems 6-8 |Gap” |
| | |Ask the Instructor Videos What Is Macroeconomics? and Have |
| | |Computers Affected Worker Productivity? |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Why Don’t All Economists Agree?” | |
|Resources | | |
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CHAPTER 7: Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Questioning the |Text Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Classical Position | |() SketchIt Exercise 7-2 |
|The Simple Keynesian |Text “Economics In Popular Culture: The Multiplier Goes on |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Model |Spring Break,” Analyzing the Scene, and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1, 2, 4, and 5 |The Graphing Workshop “Keynesian Cross” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 11.B, |Ask the Instructor Videos Can We Make Sense Out of the |
| |“Experimenting with the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Easy |Consumption Function? What Do Economists Mean by the Term |
| |Come, Easy Go” |“Multiplier”? and Does the Multiplier Work in Both Directions? |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 11: “Intertemporal Time |Internet Activity () |
| |Management: About a Boy” | |
|The Simple Keynesian |Text Analyzing the Scene, Thinking Like an Economist, and | |
|Model in the AD-AS |Self-Test | |
|Framework |Study Guide* Problem 6 | |
|The Simple Keynesian |Text Thinking Like an Economist and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Model in the TE-TP |Study Guide* Problems 3, and 7-10 |() SketchIt Exercise 7-1 |
|Framework |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 9: “The Income-Expenditure or | |
| |Keynesian Framework” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Was Keynes a Revolutionary in Economics?” |Internet Activity () |
|Resources | | |
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CHAPTER 8: Money, Banking, and The Federal Reserve
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Money: What Is It and|Text Analyzing the Scene and “Economics In the World: English |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|How Did It Come To Be?|and Money” |() |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 10.A, |Ask the Instructor Videos What Has Been Money in the Past and |
| |“Money Creation Experiment: Banks and Borrowers” and Classroom |What is Money Today? and What Are the Principal Functions of |
| |Experiment 10.B, “Barter vs. Money: Appreciating the Dollar” |Money? |
| | |Economic Application: EconNews, “The Midas Factor” (Source: |
| | |The Washington Post, February 2003) |
|Defining The Money |Text Thinking Like An Economist, “Economics In Everyday Life: Is|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Supply |Money the Best Gift?” and Self-Test |() Economic Application: |
| |Study Guide* Problem 2 |EconData, “What Is the Money Supply” |
| | |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
|The Money Creation |Text “Economics In Popular Culture: Economics on the Yellow |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Process |Brick Road” and Self-Test |() Ask the Instructor |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 3-10 |Video How Are Banks Different From Other Businesses? |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 10.1, “Bank | |
| |Expansion of Demand Deposits” and Problem Set 10.2, “The Reserve | |
| |Requirement and the Money Multiplier” | |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 8: “Banking System: It’s a | |
| |Wonderful Life” | |
|The Federal Reserve |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|System |Study Guide* Problems 11 and 12 |() |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video How Do You Calculate a Bank’s Excess |
| | |Reserves? |
| | |Economic Application: EconNews, “Fed Continues to Fight |
| | |Inflation” (Source: The New York Times Online, November 2004) |
| | |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
| | | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: How Do I Get a Job at the Fed?” | |
|Resources |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 8, “Secession, War and | |
| |Economic Change” | |
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CHAPTER 9: Money, the Price Level, and Interest Rates
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Money and the Price |Text “Economics In the World: The World Money and Inflation,” |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Level |“Economics In Popular Culture: The California Gold Rush, or an |() |
| |Apple for $72” and Self-Test |The Graphing Workshop AD/AS with a Change in the Money Supply|
| |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 2 |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Monetarism |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test | |
| |Study Guide* Problems 4, 5, 8, and 9 | |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 9.3, “Fiscal Policy| |
| |and Monetary Policy” | |
|Money and Interest |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Rates |Study Guide* Problems 3, 6, and 7 |() |
| | |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Tight Money Policy |
| | |Continues” (Source: The New York Times Online, July 2005) and |
| | |“Greenspan’s Long Term Outlook” (Source: New York Times |
| | |Online, February 2004) |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Why Should We Care How Fast the Money|
| | |Supply Grows? |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: How Do We Know What the Expected Inflation | |
|Resources |Rate Equals?” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 2, “The Manufacturing | |
| |Sector” | |
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CHAPTER 10: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Government Policies | |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|and the Economy | |() |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Why Do People Listen to Alan |
| | |Greenspan? |
|Fiscal Policy |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 9.1, “Fiscal |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Policy” |SketchIt Exercises 10.1 and 10.2 |
| | |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Tax Revenues on the Rise” |
| | |(Source: The New York Times Online, July 2005) and “Extending |
| | |the Bush Tax Cuts” (Source: New York Times Online, March 2004)|
|Demand-Side Fiscal |Text Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Economic Application: EconNews,|
|Policy |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 2 |“An Unofficial Economic Indicator” (Source: New York Times |
| | |Online, August 2004) |
|Supply-Side Fiscal |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: JFK and the 1964 Tax Cut,” | |
|Policy |Analyzing the Scene, Thinking Like an Economist and Self-Test | |
| |Study Guide* Problems 3 and 4 | |
|Monetary Policy |Study Guide* Problems 5, 6, and 8 |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Is One Type of Inflation Worse Than |
| | |Another? |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “The Money Market” |
|Monetary Policy and |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 9.2, “Monetary | |
|the Problem of |Policy” and Problem Set 11.5, “Inflationary and Recessionary Gaps”| |
|Inflationary and | | |
|Recessionary Gaps | | |
|Monetary Policy and |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: How Far Does Monetary Policy | |
|the |Reach? Or, Monetary Policy and Blue Eyes,” Analyzing the Scene, | |
|Activist-Nonactivist |Thinking Like an Economist, and Self-Test | |
|Debate | | |
|Nonactivist Monetary |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Asset-Price Inflation” | |
|Proposals |Study Guide* Problem 7 | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Are Americans Overtaxed?” | |
|Resources |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 4, “Tax Incidence: Who | |
| |Bears the Tax Burden?” and Ch. 5, “Dynamic Revenue and Budget | |
| |Estimation” | |
| |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 13, “Facing Another | |
| |World War” | |
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CHAPTER 11: Expectations Theory and the Economy
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Phillips Curve |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Analysis |Study Guide* Problems 2, 3, and 9 |() |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 8.11, “The Phillips|SketchIt Exercise 11.2 |
| |Curve” |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
| | | |
|The Controversy |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Begins: Are There |Study Guide* Problems 1, 5, 8, 10, and 11 |() |
|Really Two Phillips | |Ask the Instructor Video Is the Phillips Curve a Reliable |
|Curves? | |Basis for Stabilization Policy? |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and |
| | |the Phillips Curve” and “Short-Run and Long-Run Phillips Curve”|
|Rational Expectations |Text “Economics In Technology: Turning the Unanticipated Into |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|and New Classical |the Anticipated,” “Economics In Everyday Life: Rational |() |
|Theory |Expectations in the College Classroom” Analyzing the Scene and |SketchIt Exercise 11.1 |
| |Self-Test |The Graphing Workshop “Expectations” |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 14, “Rational Men and Women” |Ask the Instructor Video Can We Count on Monetary and Fiscal |
| |Study Guide* Problems 4, 6, and 7 |Policy to Smooth Out the Business Cycle? |
|New Keynesians and |Text “Economics In Popular Culture: The Boy Who Cried Wolf (and| |
|Rational Expectations |the Townspeople With Rational Expectations)” and Self-Test | |
|Looking at Things From|Text Self-Test | |
|the Supply Side: Real| | |
|Business Cycle | | |
|Theorists | | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Do Expectations Matter?” | |
|Resources | | |
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CHAPTER 12: Economic Growth: Resources, Technology and Ideas
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|A Few Basics About |Text Analyzing the Scene |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Economic Growth |Study Guide* Problems 1-7 |() |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 8.5, “Economic |SketchIt Exercises 12.1 and 12.2 |
| |Growth” |Ask the Instructor Video How Important Is the Rate of Economic|
| | |Growth to You? |
| | |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|What Causes Economic |Text “Economics In Technology: How Economizing on Time Can |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Growth? |Promote Economic Growth,” Thinking Like An Economist, “Economics |() |
| |In Everyday Life: Religious Beliefs and Economic Growth,” and |Ask the Instructor Video What’s the ‘Rule of 72’ and Why Is It|
| |Self-Test |So Important? |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 4: “Growth and Prosperity: The |Economic Application: EconNews, “The Tradeoff Between |
| |Man Who Wasn’t There” |Productivity (Employment) and Inflation” (Source: The New York|
| | |Times Online, August 2005) |
| | |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| | |() “Highlight Tax Incentives Please” |
| | |(Source: Financial Adviser, August 2005) |
|New Growth Theory |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Professors, Students, and |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Ideas” and Self-Test |() |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Why Are Some Nations Rich, But Others|
| | |Are Poor? |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Can An Understanding of How Economies Grow| |
|Resources |Help Me?” and “Economics In Perspective: Debates in | |
| |Macroeconomics” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 1, “Lessons From the Recent| |
| |Business Cycle” | |
| |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 2, “Economic Growth in | |
| |the Global Economy” and Ch. 9, “Peace and Renewed Progress” | |
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CHAPTER 13: Elasticity
|Chapter Outline | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Elasticity: |Text Analyzing the Scene “Economics In Everyday Life: Drug |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Part 1 |Busts and Crime,” “Economics In Everyday Life: Will High Taxes on|() |
| |Cigarettes Reduce Smoking?” and Self-Test |SketchIt Exercise 13.1 |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1-3 |The Graphing Workshop “Price Elasticity” |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 17, “Drug Busts and SUVs or |Ask the Instructor Video Is Price Elasticity of Demand the |
| |the Importance of Thinking in Threes” |Same Thing as Slope? |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 2.4 “Elasticity,” |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Does Not Smoking Make You |
| |Problem Set 2.5, “Yuppie Scum Bumper Stickers,” Problem Set 2.6, |Fat?” (Source: The New York Times, July 2005), |
| |“A Parking Lot Problem” and Problem Set 2.14, “Elasticity and |“Wireless-Phone-Only Households are Increasing, but not as |
| |Deadweight Loss” |Quickly as Predicted” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, June |
| | |2005), “My French-Mocha-Vanilla-Double-shot-Latte-Espressochino|
| | |with Non-fat Milk and Cinnamon is Going to Cost HOW MUCH?” |
| | |(Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 2004), and “You |
| | |Need a Calculator—and a Second Mortgage, Sometimes—to Go to |
| | |Amusement Parks These Days” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, |
| | |June 2004) |
|Elasticity: |Text Analyzing the Scene, “Economics In Popular Culture: Why Do |Internet Activity () |
|Part 2 |Companies Hire Celebrities?” and Self-Test | |
|Other Elasticity |Text Thinking Like an Economist (2), Analyzing the Scene, and |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Concepts |Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 4-8 |Ask the Instructor Videos Why Are Taxes on Cigarettes So High?|
| | |and Who Really Pays for Social Security? |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “Tax Incidence” |
| | |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| | |() “Is Tomorrow Another Day? The |
| | |Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers” (Source: Journal of|
| | |Political Economy, February 2005) |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Is the Type of Thinking Inherent in | |
|Resources |Elasticity Useful?” | |
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CHAPTER 14: Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene |Internet Activity () |
| |MarketSim* () Read “Overview, | |
| |Strategy, and Program Structure,” pages 16-28 of the MarketSim |MarketSim* () Register for the|
| |student manual to prepare for working through “Jeremy’s Market.” |MarketSim program online by visiting the site. |
|Utility Theory |Text “Economics In the World: Cuban Cigars” and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 5 |() |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 22, “More than Common Sense |SketchIt Exercises 14.1 and 14.2 |
| |is Needed” |Ask the Instructor Video How Is Weight Gain By First-Year |
| |Graphing Exercises* “Exercise 10: Marginal Utility” |College Students Related to the Law of Diminishing Marginal |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 1.7, “Marginal |Utility? |
| |Utility Problem,” Classroom Experiment 3.A, “Experimenting with |Economic Application: EconNews, “Who Wouldn’t Want a Fridge |
| |Marginal Utility: Popcorn and Soda-Pop” and Problem Set 3.4, |that Can Hold a Pony Keg?” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, |
| |“Utility Maximization” |July 2005) |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 12: “Consumer Choice: The | |
| |Meaning of Life” | |
|Consumer Equilibrium |Text Thinking Like an Economist, “Economics In Everyday Life: |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|and Demand |How You Pay for Good Weather,” Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |The Graphing Workshop Marginal Benefits and Marginal Costs |
| |Study Guide* Problems 2, 3, and 4 |Ask the Instructor Video Why Do Consumers Buy Less of an Item |
| | |When Its Price Rises? |
|Behavioral Economics |Text Self-Test |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Do People Really Equate Marginal |MarketSim* () Visit this site |
|Resources |Utility-Price Ratios?” |to work the activities and exercises online for “Jeremy’s |
| |MarketSim* () Read activities and |Market.” |
| |exercises for “Jeremy’s Market: A Barter Economy,” pages 29-57 of| |
| |the student manual. | |
|Appendix C: Budget |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 3.B, |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Constraint and |“Indifference Curve Experiment: Are You Sure?” Problem Set 3.1, |SketchIt Exercise 14.3 |
|Indifference Curve |“Budget Lines,” Problem Set 3.2, “Indifference Curves,” Problem |The Graphing Workshop The Budget Constraint |
|Analysis |Set 3.3, “Budget Lines, Indifference Curves, and Consumer |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| |Satisfaction,” and Problem Set 3.5, “Budget Lines, Indifference |() “High Hopes for Low Prices; Ross |
| |Curves, and Demand Curves” |Appeals to Bargain Hunters with DD’s Discounts.” (Source: San|
| | |Francisco Chronicle, August 2004) |
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CHAPTER 15: Production and Costs
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Firm’s Objective: |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Maximizing Profit |Study Guide* Problem 1 |() Ask the Instructor |
| | |Videos How Do Businesses Raise Cash to Finance Startups and |
| | |Expansions? and Why Do Economists and Accountants Disagree? |
|Production |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Study Guide* Problems 2-6 and 10 |Economic Application: EconData, “Labor Productivity” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 4.A, |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Is There a New Economy?”|
| |“Diminishing Marginal Product Experiment: The Econville Link |SketchIt Exercise 15.2 |
| |Factory,” Problem Set 4.1, “The Fixed, Variable, and Total Cost of|Business & Company Resource Center* |
| |Production” Problem Set 4.4, “Daphne’s Apparel Shop 2,” Problem |() “A Productivity Primer; Economics|
| |Set 4.9, “Cost Curves—The Un-University,” and Problem Set 5.8, |Focus” (Source: The Economist US, November 2004) |
| |“Changing Variable Cost and Fixed Cost” | |
|Costs of Production: |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: High School Students, Staying|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Total, Average, |Out Late, and More,” Analyzing the Scene (2), “Economics In the |The Graphing Workshop “Production and Cost” |
|Marginal |World: What Matters to Global Competitiveness?” A Closer Look, |Ask the Instructor Video What Do We Mean by Fixed Versus |
| |“Economics In Everyday Life: ‘I Have to Become an Accountant,’” |Variable Costs |
| |Thinking Like an Economist, and Self-Test |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Hotels Won’t Change the |
| |Study Guide* Problems 7-9 |Sheets Every Night Anymore” (Source: USA Today, July 2005) and|
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 12: “Costs” |“Just-in-time Manufacturing May Become Just-as-soon-as-I-can |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 4.2, “The Average |Manufacturing” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, December |
| |and Marginal Cost of Production” and Problem Sets 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, |2004) |
| |4.7, and 4.8, “Daphne’s Apparel Shop” |Internet Activities () |
| | |, and |
| | | |
|Production and Costs |MarketSim* () Read “Introduction”|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Ask the Instructor Video Why |
|in the Long Run |and “Overview, Strategy Tips, and Program Structure” in the |Can’t We Feed the World From a Flower Pot? |
| |MarketSim student manual, pages 59-100, to familiarize yourself |MarketSim* () Visit the |
| |with “Adam’s Market: A Monetary Economy.” |product site and complete Learning Activities and Exercises for|
| | |“Adam’s Market: A Monetary Economy” |
|Shifts in Cost Curves |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Economic Application: Policy |
| | |Debate, “Shifts in Cost Curves” |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Will A Knowledge of Sunk Cost Help Prevent| |
|Resources |Me From Making a Mistake in the Stock Market?” | |
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CHAPTER 16: Perfect Competition
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Theory of Perfect |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Competition |Study Guide* Problems 1-3 |() |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 4.10, “Perfect |Economic Application: EconData, “What is the S&P 500?” |
| |Competition Consultants” |The Graphing Workshop Firm and Market in Perfect Competition |
| | |(Short-Run Profit Maximization) |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Is the Used Car Market Perfectly |
| | |Competitive? |
| | |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
|Perfect Competition in|Text Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|the Short Run |Study Guide* Problems 4 and 7 |() |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 13: “Perfect Competition” |SketchIt Exercise 16.1 |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 4.11, “Perfectly |The Graphing Workshop “Short-Run Supply Decision” |
| |Competitive Markets and Firms” and Problem Set 4.12, “Perfect | |
| |Competition: Reading the Graphs” | |
|Perfect Competition in|Text “Economics In Popular Culture: What Do Audrey Hepburn, |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|the Long Run |Lucille Ball, and Bugs Bunny Have in Common?” “Economics In |() |
| |Everyday Life: Do Churches Compete?” Analyzing the Scene (2), and|SketchIt Exercise 16.2 |
| |Self-Test |Ask the Instructor Video Do Competitive Firms Earn Economic |
| |Study Guide* Problems 5 and 6 |Profit in the Long Run? |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 20: “Auctions: The River” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Does Job Security Have Anything to do With| |
|Resources |Fixed and Variable Costs?” | |
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CHAPTER 17: Monopoly
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Theory of Monopoly |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |() Economic Application: |
| | |Policy Debate, “Is Microsoft a Monopoly?” |
|Monopoly Pricing and |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Monopoly and the Boston Tea|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Output Decisions |Party” and Analyzing the Scene (2) |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1, 4, and 5 |SketchIt Exercise 17.1 |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 14: Monopoly |The Graphing Workshop “Output Determination in Monopoly” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 5.C, “A|Ask the Instructor Videos Why Are Cable Rates So High? and Why|
| |Monopoly Making Dough,” Problem Set 5.1, “Daphne’s Apparel Shop|Do Professions Try to Limit Entry? |
| |as a Monopoly,” Problem Set 5.2, “Monopoly Consultant,” Problem| |
| |Set 5.3, “Monopoly,” Problem Set 5.4, “Total Revenue, Marginal | |
| |Revenue, and Average Revenue” and Problem Set 5.5, “Marginal | |
| |Revenue and Elasticity” | |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 13: “Monopoly: Being John | |
| |Malkovich” | |
|Perfect Competition and |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Monopoly |Study Guide* Problem 2 |() |
| | |SketchIt Exercise 17.2 |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “Monopoly: Demand and Marginal Revenue”|
|The Case Against Monopoly|Text Thinking Like an Economist |Internet Activity () |
| |Study Guide* Problem 3 | |
|Price Discrimination |Text Analyzing the Scene, “Economics In Everyday Life: | |
| |Amazon and Price Discrimination,” “Economics In Everyday Life: | |
| |Why Do District Attorneys Plea Bargain?” and Self-Test | |
|End-of-Chapter Resources |Text “A Reader Asks: Do Colleges and Universities Price | |
| |Discriminate?” | |
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CHAPTER 18: Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|The Theory of |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Monopolistic |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 2 |() |
|Competition |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 5.7, “Monopolistic |SketchIt Exercises 18.1 and 18.2 |
| |Competition” |The Graphing Workshop “The Monopolistically Competitive Firm |
| | |in the Short Run” |
| | |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Circuses: It’s Not About |
| | |Fun and Games Anymore,” (Source: The Wall Street Journal, |
| | |August 2005), and “Now French Muslims Can Have it Their Way |
| | |Too” (Source: The Associated Press, August 2005) |
| | |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Oligopoly: Assumptions|Study Guide* Problem 4 |Internet Activity () |
|and Real-World | | |
|Behavior | | |
|Price and Output Under|Text “Economics In Everyday Life: How Is a New Year’s Resolution|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Three Oligopoly |Like a Cartel Agreement?” Thinking Like an Economist and Self-Test|() |
|Theories |Study Guide* Problems 3 and 5 |The Graphing Workshop “Short-Run Equilibrium in Monopolistic |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 5.B, “A |Competition” and “Long-Run Equilibrium in Monopolistic |
| |Cartel Growing Bananas” |Competition” |
|Game Theory, |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: An Economic Theory of the |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Oligopoly, and |Mafia” and “Economics In Technology: The Industry Standard Path |() Economic Application: |
|Contestable Markets |to Monopoly” |EconNews, “Cheaters Sometimes Win, and Winners Sometimes Cheat”|
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 12, “Winners and Losers” |(Source: The New York Times Online, August 2005) |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment: 5.A, |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| |“Game Theory and the Prisoner’s Oligopoly” and Problem Set 5.6, |() “To Sort Out Best O’Hare Result, |
| |“Game Theory” |Turn to Game Theory” (Source: Crain’s Chicago Business, |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene 16: “Game Theory: In the Name of|September 2004) |
| |the Father” | |
|A Review of Market | |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Ask the Instructor Video What |
|Structures | |Are the Differences Among the Four Market Structures? |
|Applications of Game |Text Analyzing the Scene | |
|Theory |How to Think Like an Economist* Ch. 24, “Right for Me, Right for | |
| |You, but Wrong for US” | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Are Some Prisoner’s Dilemmas Good and | |
|Resources |Others Bad?” | |
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CHAPTER 19: Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Factor Markets |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), Thinking Like an Economist (2), and|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1-3 and 5-6 |SketchIt Exercises 19.1 and 19.2 |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 15: “Factor Markets” |The Graphing Workshop “Demand for Labor” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 6.5, “The Optimum | |
| |Resource Mix” | |
|The Labor Market |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), “Economics In the World: Why Jobs |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Don’t Always Move to the Low-Wage Country,” “Economics In |() |
| |Technology: How May Crime, Outsourcing, and Multitasking Be |Economic Application: EconData, “What Is the Labor Cost Per |
| |Related?” “Economics In Everyday Life: What Is the Wage Rate for |Unit of Output—Manufacturing?” |
| |a Street-Level Pusher in a Drug Gang?” and Self-Test |Economic Application: EconNews, “Costco’s Business Model |
| |Study Guide* Problem 4 |Proves Successful” (Source: The New York Times, July 2005) |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 6.A, |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Are Americans |
| |“Deriving the Labor Supply Curve: Put Your Hands Up,” Problem Set|Overworked?” |
| |6.1, “Total Product and Marginal Product,” Problem Set 6.2, “More |The Graphing Workshop “Competitive Labor Market” |
| |on Marginal Product,” Problem Set 6.3, “Derived Demand” and |Ask the Instructor Videos Why Do LanguageTeachers Earn Less? |
| |Problem Set 6.4, “Changing Marginal Physical Product and Product |and What Would Happen If Everyone Were Paid the Same? |
| |Price” |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Labor Markets and |Text Analyzing the Scene |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Information | |() |
| | |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Is a College Education a|
| | |Good Investment?” |
| | |Ask the Instructor Videos Have Computers Affected Worker |
| | |Productivity? and Should You Have Gone to College? |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Does Education Matter to Income?” | |
|Resources |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 10, “Health Care and | |
| |Insurance” | |
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CHAPTER 20: Interest, Rent, and Profit
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Interest |Text Analyzing the Scene, Thinking Like an Economist, “Economics|ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |In Popular Culture: Lotteries, Art, and Old Age,” “Economics In |() |
| |Everyday Life: Is the Car Worth Buying?” and Self-Test |Ask the Instructor Video Why Do Interest Rates Vary? |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1 and 2 | |
|Rent |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: What Does Present Value Have |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |to Do With a Divorce?” Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 3-5 |SketchIt Exercise 20.1 |
| |How to Think Like an Economist* Chapter 18, “Is it the Same |The Graphing Workshop “Opportunity Cost and Economic Rent” |
| |Everywhere? Is it the Same All the Time?” |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Profit |Text Thinking Like an Economist and Self-Test |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Are There Calculators To Help Me Plan My | |
|Resources |Life?” | |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 6.B, | |
| |“Learning from Teaching: The Anti-REM Game” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 3, “The Year in Review and | |
| |the Years Ahead” | |
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CHAPTER 21: The Distribution of Income and Poverty
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Some Facts about |Text Analyzing the Scene, Thinking Like an Economist, and |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Income Distribution |Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problems 1, 2, and 5 |Ask the Instructor Video How Does Income Distribution in the |
| |Economics in the Movies* Scene18: “Income: Parenthood” |U.S. Compare? |
| | |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| | |() “In Manhattan, Poor Make 2cents |
| | |for Each Dollar To the Rich.” (Source: The New York Times, |
| | |September 2005) |
|Measuring Income |Text Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Equality |Study Guide* Problem 4 |() |
| | |SketchIt Exercise 21.1 |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video Will There Always be Poverty? |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “The Lorenz Curve” |
| | |Economic Applications: EconNews, “Minorities and Whites are |
| | |Growing Apart, Not Together” (Source: The Wall Street Journal,|
| | |October 2004) and “In Its Move to Capitalism, China Discovers |
| | |Income Inequality” (Source: The New York Times, December 2004)|
| | |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
|Why Income Inequality |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Winner-Take-All Markets” and |Business & Company Resource Center* |
|Exists |Self-Test |() “2 Black Truckers Sue, Accusing |
| | |Wal-Mart of Hiring Bias” (Source: The New York Times, July |
| | |2005) |
|Normative Standards of| | |
|Income Distribution | | |
|Poverty |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Monks, Blessings, and Free |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| |Riders” and Self-Test |() “Effort to Reduce Poverty and |
| |Study Guide* Problem 3 |Hunger in Brazil Falls Short of Its Goals.” (Source: The New |
| | |York Times, May 2005) |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Are There Degrees of Poverty?” | |
|Resources |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 14, “Issues in the | |
| |Postwar Decades” | |
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CHAPTER 22: Market Failure: Externalities and Public Goods
|Chapter Section |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Externalities |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), Thinking Like an Economist (2), |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problem 1 |SketchIt Exercise 22.1 |
| |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 16: “Externalities” |Ask the Instructor Video Why Does Asymmetric Information Create|
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 7.B, |Problems |
| |“Externality Experiment: The Ecomedy Club,” Problem Set 7.4, |The Graphing Workshop “Externalities” |
| |“Positive Externalities,” and Problem Set 7.5, “Negative |Economic Application: EconNews, “Salmon Are Just Going to Have|
| |Externalities” |to Deal with Those Dams!” (Source: The New York Times, |
| | |December 2004) |
|Internalizing |Text “Economics In Technology: Software, Switching Costs and |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Externalities |Benefits, and Market Failure” and Self-Test |() SketchIt Exercise 22.2|
| |Study Guide* Problems 2-4 | |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 7.1, “Tax | |
| |Incidence” and Problem Set 7.6, “Congested Parks—A Pricing | |
| |Dilemma” | |
|Dealing with a Negative |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise Economic Application: Policy |
|Externality in the |Economics in the Movies* Scene 19: “Environmental Economics: |Debate, “Should Anti-Pollution Standards be Strengthened?” |
|Environment |Erin Brockovich” |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
| | |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| | |() “Environmental Economics” |
| | |(Source: Environmental Encyclopedia) |
|Public Goods: Excludable |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Finding Economics in College |Business & Company Resource Center* |
|and Nonexcludable |Life,” Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |() “Call It Protection Money” |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 7.A, “Free|(Source: U.S. News & World Report, November 2003) |
| |Rider Experiment: Show Me the Money” | |
|End-of-Chapter Resources |Text “A Reader Asks: Are Houses and Shopping Centers a Sign of | |
| |‘Progress’?” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 6, “Restoring Solvency to | |
| |Social Securiy” and Ch. 9, “Protecting the Environment” | |
| |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 11, “The Great War” | |
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CHAPTER 23: Public Choice: Economic Theory Applied to Politics
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene | |
|Public Choice Theory | |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| | |() Ask the Instructor |
| | |Video Why Do We Keep the Income Tax If It Is So Unpopular? |
|The Political Market |Text Analyzing the Scene and Thinking Like an Economist |Internet Activity () |
| | | |
| | |Business & Company Resource Center* |
| | |() “Watching America: Will It |
| | |Listen to Foreigners, or Do as It Pleases?” (Source: The New |
| | |York Times, January 2005) |
|Voters and Rational |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Are You Rationally Ignorant?” | |
|Ignorance |Analyzing the Scene (2) and Self-Test | |
|Special Interest |Text “Economics In Everyday Life: Inheritance, Heirs, and Why |Internet Activity () |
|Groups |the Firstborn Became King or Queen,” and Self-Test | |
|Government Bureaucracy| | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: What Is the Significance of Public | |
|Resources |Choice?” | |
| |Issues in American Economic History* Ch. 5, “Opening Up North | |
| |America” | |
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CHAPTER 24: International Trade and Finance
|Chapter Section | | |
| |Print Study Resources |Media Study Resources |
|Introduction |Text Setting the Scene |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
|International Trade |Text Analyzing the Scene, “Economics In Everyday Life: Dividing |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Theory |Up the Work” and Self-Test |() |
| |Study Guide* Problem 1 |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Does the U.S. Economy |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Classroom Experiment 12.A, “The|Benefit from Foreign Trade?” |
| |Benefits from Trade: Utility Gains from a Lunch Sack,” Classroom |Business & Company Resource Center ()|
| |Experiment 12.B, “Comparative Advantage Experiment: To Everyone’s|“A 21st Century U.S. Trade Policy” (Source: National Review, |
| |Advantage,” and Problem Set 12.6, “Comparative and Absolute |February 2004) |
| |Advantage” | |
|Trade Restrictions |Text Analyzing the Scene (2), “Economics In Popular Culture: |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
| |Offshore Outsourcing or Offshoring,” Thinking Like an Economist |The Graphing Workshop “Effects of a Tariff” and “Effects of a |
| |and Self-Test |Quota” |
| |Study Guide* Problems 2-8 |Ask the Instructor Video What Are the Arguments For Trade |
| | |Restrictions?” |
| | |Economic Application: EconNews, “CAFTA Becomes Reality” |
| | |(Source: The New York Times Online, July 2005) |
| | |Internet Activities () |
| | | and |
|The Foreign Exchange |Text Thinking Like an Economist |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Market |Study Guide* Problems 9-11 |SketchIt Exercises 24.1 and 24.2 |
| | |The Graphing Workshop “Foreign Exchange Market” |
| | |Ask the Instructor Video How Do We Pay for Imports? |
|Flexible Exchange |Graphing Exercises* Exercise 17: “Exchange Rates” |ThomsonNOW for Arnold Concise |
|Rates |Study Guide* Problem 12 |Ask the Instructor Video What Causes the Demand for Foreign |
| |Text Analyzing the Scene and Self-Test |Exchange Rates |
| |Favorite Ways to Learn Economics* Problem Set 12.1, “Exchange |Economic Application: Policy Debate, “Will the European |
| |Rates” |Monetary Union Succeed?” |
|Fixed Exchange Rates |Text Self-Test | |
|Versus Flexible |L | |
|Exchange Rates | | |
|End-of-Chapter |Text “A Reader Asks: Why Does the Government Impose Tariffs and| |
|Resources |Quotas?” | |
| |Economic Report of the President* Ch. 12, “International Trade | |
| |and Cooperation,” Ch. 13, “International Capital Flows,” and Ch. | |
| |14, “The Link Between Trade and Capital Flows” | |
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